ATHENS, Ohio – A Kroger employee made one elderly woman’s birthday a very happy one.

Jeannettea Hollingshead explained in a Facebook post that she stopped in at a Kroger store in Athens, Ohio to buy her grandmother a birthday cake. While there, she struck up a conversation with a friendly cashier named Wes.

“He asked about the cake, and when I told him about Gramma, he exclaimed, ‘Wait right here just a minute please!’ and walked away,” wrote Hollingshead. “He came back a minute later with a rose he’d purchased at the flower stand.”

Touched by the gesture, Hollingshead snapped a photo of Wes and her grandmother.

“This young man, Wes, went above and beyond, and his act of kindness really made Gramma’s day,” wrote Hollingshead.